Catastrophic Failure

Had my hard drive take a dump on me this afternoon, I really hope I can recover my data. After I rebuilt my machine about 6 months ago I pulled everything off of my external backup so I could reorganize stuff - never got around to it.

In the course of getting things straightened out I somehow managed to fry the power supply - I mean I actually fried it; sizzle, puff of smoke and a smell that the wife shortly started to yell at me about.

Eh, I've got some work to do this weekend so tomorrow won't really be better. I've got to either recover my cad or borrow the bosses cad for a job that is supposed to be done on Monday. Right now I don't have word or excel either which I need.

I hate doing backups. I have at least 40 gig to put over and it takes so long.

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I have used in the past a program called Second Copy, it's inexpensive and does it on schedule. Unlike most free programs it only backs up new and updated info in the set range, once it does its first copy the rest happen relatively quickly.

Getting back my data from my old hard drive is a little beyond my skill, I'm going to ask a friend to take a look at it this week.

I have a spare 160g hard drive in my PC that I use for backups
Its an automated incremental backup - only changed files
I also backup to CD/DVD's
I want to add another external Network drive for storage & backup

It is not well known that all electronic devices are built with a smoke chamber locked inside. If you do something which unlocks the chamber and allows the smoke to escape, the device can no longer function.

For a couple of years, I have subscribed to Carbonite, on line backup. It works continuously in the background, and has saved my butt once already.

I have a spare 160g hard drive in my PC that I use for backups
Its an automated incremental backup - only changed files
I also backup to CD/DVD's
I want to add another external Network drive for storage & backup

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I have on-board RAID but it sucks. I meant to add on a dedicated RAID controller but like everything else it remained a thought rather than an actual task.